Re: [Libguestfs] Guestfish errors (Running in VirtualBox)
On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 04:38:56AM -0700, Chris Willmore wrote:
I am trying to run guestfish inside an Ubuntu instance running in
VirtualBox. I'm running into problems, and my first question, is
this setup even possible?
Yes. It will work fine, although it'll be a bit slower because it
will use only software virtualization instead of hardware-accelerated
virt.
I compiled and installed libguestfs-1.8.4.
Running libguestfs-test-tool fails with the following output.
Would appreciate any advice,
[...]
febootstrap: ext2 mini initrd starting up
febootstrap: mounting /sys
febootstrap: insmod crc-ccitt.ko
insmod: execl: Exec format error
insmod: wait: File exists
I guess you're using the 'insmod.static' binary that we supply, which
was copied from an x86-64 Fedora instance. It looks like this is a 32
bit host. So that's not gonna work.
The real solution to this is for Ubuntu to compile insmod.static in
Ubuntu's module-init-tools package.
In the meantime, here is a 32 bit binary copied from Fedora 15:
http://oirase.annexia.org/tmp/insmod.static
Rich.
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